Brenda Power: If male murderers like the Canadian shooter are described as female, crime statistics are meaningless

Agenda being stealthily advanced by media and political cowardice must be challenged

A memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge in Canada. Photo: Reuters

Since 1979, there have been just two school shootings carried out by teenage females in the United States, claiming a total of four lives. There have been none in Canada.

So the news, as reported by RTÉ’s Morning ­Ireland last Wednesday, that a woman had shot dead eight people in a Canadian school was shockingly historic for two reasons. Not only was it one of the worst school shootings in that country’s history, but also the deadliest ever, in North America, by a teenage female.